Making Sense Out of
Suffering, by Peter Kreeft. Servant Books, 1996.
God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is His megaphone to rouse a dulled world (C.S. Lewis).
This book is for everyone who has ever wept and wondered WHY. Kreeft notes that the world is full of normal lives who have suffered from pointless and random suffering.
This book will delight and convince. This book is a book for empty hearts, not full ones. Kreeft poses questions and presents answers. In order to do this, a guide needs humility, compassion, and a lightness of being, plus a well- tempered mind. Kreft has all these qualities which he exhibits in this book on Suffering.
Kreeft presents
questions and answers, artists and prophets, clues and tears, even clues from God. He concludes this book with a chapter called. “Why Modernity Can’t Understand Suffering.”
There at least 7 things the modern mind forgets and has to take special effort to remember:
The
greatest good - God.
Loss of faith in ultimate meaning.
Forgetfulness of heaven and hell.
Forgetfulness of solidarity.
Forgetfulness of original sin.
Forgetfulness of vicarious atonement. Forgetfulness of justice.
“Those who
believe the Man who made these and other great promises are called Christians. Life’s greatest adventure is to be one.”
(Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman, OP for this review.)
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Saint of the Week
St. Rita of Cascia: (1381-1457). May 16.
Like Elizabeth Ann Seton, Rita of Cascia was a wife, mother, widow, and member of a religious community. Her holiness was reflected in each phase of her life.
Born at Roccaporena in central Italy, Rita wanted to become a nun but was pressured at a young age into marrying a harsh and cruel
man. During her 18-year marriage, she bore and raised two sons. After her husband was killed in a brawl and her sons had died, Rita tried to join the Augustinian nuns in Cascia. Unsuccessful at first because she was a widow, Rita eventually succeeded.
Over the years, her austerity, prayerfulness, and charity became legendary. When she developed wounds on her forehead, people
quickly associated them with the wounds from Christ’s crown of thorns. She meditated frequently on Christ’s passion. Her care for the sick nuns was especially loving. She also counseled lay people who came to her monastery.
Beatified in 1626, Rita was not canonized until 1900. She has acquired the reputation, together with Saint Jude, as a saint of impossible cases. Many people
visit her tomb each year.
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An attempt to prove that God exists by appealing to the principle that all things have
causes. There cannot be an infinite regress of causes, therefore, there must be an uncaused cause: God.
